Suspenders.



No. 862,331. PATENTEDYYAUG. e, 1907.

11. s; HEINEMAN.

' .SUSPENDERS.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN.27, 1906.

UNITED ATES PATENT OFFICE.

SUSPENDERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1907.

Application filed January 2'7, 1906. Serial No. 298,268.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT S. HEINEMAN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city and county of Los Angeles and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSuspenders, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing, forming a part hereof.

One object of this invention is to provide a suspender in which the endsare constructed or re-inforced so as to increase materially thedurability of the suspender.

As is well known, the ends of the suspender are the first to wear out,and in the large majority of cases this wearing out is due to theripping or tearing of one or more of the suspender ends. In accordancewith the present invention the suspender ends are reinforced in such away as to prevent this tearing and ripping and thus to prolongconsiderably the life of the suspender.

The invention will be more fully described with reference to theaccompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 is a view in elevation of the front web of a suspender with thesuspender ends attached thereto, Fig. 2 is a similar view in sideelevation, the suspender end and connecting piece being shown partly insection. Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively plan and sectional views of onesuspender end, showing a modification, Figs. 5 and 6 are respectivelyviews in elevation and plan of a slide for the front web to which theend of the front web is attached, and Figs. 7 and 8 are plan views ofone suspender end, showing further modifications.

In the drawing, most of the parts of the suspender are shownconventionally. In Fig. 1, the two suspender ends a are connected asusual by the connecting piece b, and each of the suspender ends arereinforced preferably above and below the slit 0. At the lower end ofthe slit a piece d, which may be of metal or of any other durablesubstance, is secured around the lower edge and forms the lower part ofthe slit. This piece (1 is preferably substantially disk shaped and isbent around the lower edge of the slit, and made to bite or grip thesame tightly. In this way, the strain on the suspender end is dividedthroughout the end, and the material in each end is more firmly unitedabout the slit than heretofore.

In order to reinforce the suspender end above the slit, a staple or thelike a may be inserted into the suspender end and, as will be obvious,this staple will tend to unite the material in the suspender end morefirmly around the top ofthe slit.

The connecting piece b, which joins the suspender ends, is preferablyprovided with a short metallic strip f at the point where the connectingpiecerests upon the cast-off g. In this way, the wearing away of theconnecting piece at this point may be effectively prevented.

Between the connecting piece g and the front web h .is the usualconnecting piece "i. In the present case the front web passes freelythrough the piece i and up through the buckle k, the end I of the webbeing free of both the buckle and the connecting piece 1'. In order tomake it more difficult for the web to slide through the buckle after theweb has been adjusted, the free end I of the web is secured to a slideon upon the web. This slide consists preferably of a band which, asshown in Fig. 5, isbent in the form of the letter C, and the end Z ofthe web is formed with a loop a which is slipped over the free ends ofthe slide m. It will be clear that, with this disposition of the web,the suspender may be lengthened or shortened without necessarilybringing the buckle in any particular position. It will also be clearthat if it is not desirable to have three strands of webbing, as shownin Fig. 2, the buckle may be raised so as to bring the slide m on alevel therewith.

Referring to Figs. 3,4, 7 and 8, in which modifications of thereinforcement pieces are shown, it will be seen that these pieces mayassume different forms or shapes and be disposed in different ways. InFig. 7 the suspender end is reinforced above and below the slit by meansof a staple.- In Fig. 8 the reinforcing means above the slit is omittedwhile the metal piece in the bottom of the slit is relatively muchlarger than as shown in Fig. 1.

In Figs. 3 and 4 the reinforcement in the bottom of the slit is shown ascoming up much higher upon the slit than in Fig. 1.

It will be clear that several changes may be made in the suspender shownand described without departing from the spirit of the invention, andthat the invention is equally applicable to all kinds of suspenders aswell as to the conventional style shown herein.

I claim as my invention,-

1. In a suspender end of flexible material having the usual button-holeslit, means to distribute the strain at the lower end, consisting of areinforcing piece of nonfiexible material extending laterally on bothsides of the slit at its lower end only and secured to the suspenderend.

2. In a suspender end of flexible material having the usual button-holeslit, means to distribute the strain at the lower end consisting of astiff reinforcing piece extending laterally on both sides of the slit atits lower end only and having its edges compressed into the material ofthe Suspender end.

3. In a suspender end of flexible material having the usual button-holeslit, means to distribute the strain at the lower end consisting of asubstantially disk-shaped piece bent around the lower end of the slitand extending laterally on both sides of the slit at its lower end only.

4. In a suspender end of flexible material having the 10 usualbuttonhole slit, means to distribute the strain at the lower end'consisting of a reinforcing piece of nonfiexible material bent aroundthe lower end of the slit and extending laterally on both sides of theslit.

This specificationsigned and witnessed this 15th day 01' January, 1906.

HERBERT S. I-IEINEMAN.

Signed in the presence of- HARJORIE ROLLINS, A. L. STEVENS.

